Qian Dynasty Week
[4237th year of the Qianli calendar, month of La]
[There was a great famine that year, people ate each other, and the world was in turmoil. Emperor Qian was incompetent, wars broke out everywhere, and evil spirits were rampant.]
[You are an eight-year-old child who died of illness. You migrated with your parents and younger sister to the southern province.]
Wu Ci concentrated his mind and probed his consciousness into the wooden bead bracelet that served as evidence, intervening to observe the history simulated by the simulator.
At the end of the dynasty, Emperor Qian was incompetent, greedy, and hedonistic. He imposed heavy taxes, and the people suffered terribly. This led to wars everywhere, endless fighting, corpses everywhere, and the corpses rotted and caused plague, making it impossible to farm in peace.
Unfortunately, this year is another year of famine, with no harvest. The people who had survived the entire autumn could no longer endure it and could not find a way to survive. They began a long migration in the snowy winter, wanting to go to the famous and prosperous Southern Province.
The city that suffered the most severe disaster was Xiling, which was attacked by demons and ghosts and took the people for food.
The governor of Xiling County used strategies to defend the city to the death, but the commander in charge of the army surrendered to the enemy on the spot because the court had delayed sending troops for many years. Fifteen cities were successively conquered, and his entire family died in the last city of Xiling, allowing the surviving people to flee to Nanzhou.
Livestock and cattle and sheep had all been slaughtered early and consumed, leaving only skinny hungry people like walking corpses, half-naked, dragging their families in the knee-high snow, leaving traces of one foot deep and one foot shallow, just following the people walking in front of them, walking aimlessly towards the far south where they were not sure whether they could reach.
The view shifted and zoomed in on the body of a sick and dead child.
The child's body lay on its back in the snow, its lips gray and cracked, its skin pale and gray, and its clothes tattered.
Like all the other corpses lying on the roadside, his mouth was slightly open, his eyes were empty after death, and he stared blankly at the sky. The bodies that had just fallen were mostly buried by the heavy snow in this short period of time.
The only thing to be thankful for was that he died of an epidemic and was not torn to pieces by the starving people, so his body was left intact.
Wu Ci, from the God's perspective, felt as if a part of his soul was being pulled out, sinking, and thrown into the dead body of the child below.
With the arrival of Wu Ci's soul, the lifeless eyes gradually turned into the same cyan color as Wu Ci.
"Husband...Boss! Ci'er is alive! He is not dead!" The woman holding the baby checked his breathing, and in surprise, she grabbed the child's wrist with her skinny five fingers, with such great force that it left a purple bruise, as if she was grabbing some lost treasure.
The woman knelt on the ground regardless of the coldness of the snow, turned around and shouted to the skinny man who had walked a distance, "Boss! He is not dead, he can still live! Don't abandon him, he is your son... The journey to Nanzhou is long, wait until he recovers from the cold, and if he can't stand the journey, you can use him to exchange for other people's children! Otherwise, he will become food for demons and ghosts here, and he won't even be able to endure reincarnation!"
The skinny middle-aged man came back and looked at his resurrected son for a moment. After confirming that there was no sign of evil spirit possessing him, he carried his son and the luggage on his shoulders.
…
[After two days, you have completely digested the memory, but you feel hungry and cold, and your body is weak. You know that you can't go on, and you should make plans early.]
[That night, you felt something unusual in your mother's arms. You decided:
A. Ignore it
B. Pretend to be asleep
C. Get up and check
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
There is actually an option to choose from? That's convenient.
I am not sure about options D and E, but according to the prompts before the simulation starts, it is not necessary to use up all the soul strength at the beginning. It is always possible to consume all the soul strength at the beginning.
So we eliminate D and E, leaving ABC.
Option A, ignoring it, is definitely not an option. The purpose of Wu Ci is to simulate, not to make the simulated character sleep.
Option C, getting up to check, is too rash. Acting rashly without knowing the situation can lead to death quickly. The number of simulations is limited, so it is still ruled out.
That leaves only option B.
[You chose: B. Pretend to sleep]
[You are suspicious and cautious by nature. You did not open your eyes and pretended to be asleep, but you actually listened with your ears tilted and squinted secretly.]
[You discovered that the noise came from your father. He stuffed your sister into his arms and left suspiciously. You decided:
A. Ignore it
B. Pretend to be asleep
C. Get up and check
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
My sister was taken away by my father in the middle of the night... Combined with the hint at the beginning of the simulation, "When there is a great famine, people will eat each other." Either she was taken away to be exchanged for the meat of other babies, or she was sold.
This probability is very high and it is a clear clue, so you should not choose to get up and check. After all, Wu Ci's current simulated identity is just a child. Following him will only increase the danger and waste simulation times.
"In that year of great famine, people ate each other." These six short words, without any emotional overtones, are concise and powerful.
But a speck of dust from history can be a mountain when it falls on a person, and just a few words in history books can tear mountains and rivers apart.
Wu Ci touched the untouchable words and felt the cruelty and numbness of the troubled times between the lines.
In a world where people eat each other, black cats should have been able to live well in the past.
Wu Ci sighed, stopped his jumping thoughts, and continued the simulation.
Let it be chaos... Chaos is the ladder to ascend, it is good to be chaotic...
He told himself again and again: People are not good things, and it's hard for you to survive yourself, so how can you care about other people in history? Even if you save them, they will die after so many years, so it is completely meaningless.
Anyway, it's just to create a hero for the sake of gaining a reputation... It's better to be in a chaotic world, because it's easiest to become famous in a chaotic world...
[You chose B. Pretend to sleep]
[You know that your abilities are limited, and you are afraid of another change, so you pretend to sleep. Not long after, you notice your father coming back with a large piece of fresh meat.]
[You knew clearly in your heart that it was exchanged by your sister, and since it was exchanged for flesh and blood, it meant that you might be safe tonight. The child's body was exhausted, and you fell asleep because you couldn't hold on any longer.]
[The next day, when it was bright, your mother asked about your sister's whereabouts, but your father remained silent and shared the barbecue with you. You knew that a child's body could not support hunger, so you ate it.]
Is there no option to not eat? Is it to simulate directly based on his thinking and personality, and determine what he will do at this stage?
Wuci paused and chose to continue the simulation.
[You ate the meat and relieved your hunger, but the meat was gone in two days. That night, you noticed the movement again and decided:
A. Ignore it
B. Pretend to be asleep
C. Get up and check
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
Why are there only these five options?
Wu Ci frowned and looked carefully for a moment, then chose B again.
[You chose B. Pretend to sleep]
[You knew that a child's body could not resist his father, so you continued to pretend to be asleep and secretly guarded. You felt your father take you out of your mother's arms. As you were on guard, you saw your father carrying you away from the refugee camp and hiding you in the snow.]
[You open your eyes in the snow and find that your father has returned to the refugee settlement at night. You decide:
A. Ignore it
B. Call loudly
C. Follow secretly
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
This time there are finally different options. "Get up and check" becomes "Follow secretly", and pretending to be asleep becomes "call loudly".
【You chose C. Follow secretly】
[You know that the child's body cannot survive in the snow, so you secretly follow and find that the father and mother go to the other side of the refugee camp after a while]
[Mother did not come back, only father brought a large piece of raw meat and some dry food again]
[You realize that your father might go back to the snow to bring you back, so you quickly go back to the snow, clean up the footprints and traces left by him, and lie down. When your father comes back, you pretend to be at a loss and wake up from the cold.]
[You asked your father why you were here, but he kept silent and took you back to the settlement, where he fell asleep with you and the food in his arms]
[The next day, the sky brightened, the wind and snow blew, and the hungry refugees finally surrounded you and tried to take you away. Your father shouted them off and was chopped on the leg by a hatchet. You choose:
A. Ignore it
B. Going up the mountain to collect herbs
C. Solve the problem of father
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
This time the options are a bit interesting.
Wu Ci, who had been wanted all over the world and fled in his previous life, had some ability to survive in the wild, and naturally knew how to identify plants and herbs. However, it was extremely dangerous for a malnourished child to go up the snowy mountains to collect herbs.
As for the rest, there is even the option of taking this opportunity to get rid of my father. It is so filial. If I choose this option, I will probably end up being scolded by my father and laughed at by my son.
However, if he took the opportunity to kill his father, not to mention whether the malnourished weak child's small body could beat his father's dying counterattack, just the identity of the simulated child was so small, and the child was alone, he would probably be eaten that night...
But from a rough look at the simulated options and behaviors, this "father" looks like a very representative ancient feudal male, a son who values inheritance, and for the sake of himself and his son, he first sells his daughter and then his wife. It's not a good thing.
Although he was stabbed for scolding the refugees in order to protect his son, who knows if he would sell his son and eat him if he got too hungry?
Choose B, go up the mountain and see if there is a chance to survive the snow, then stay on the mountain.
[You chose B. Going up the mountain to collect herbs]
[You know that you will not live long after losing your father's protection, so you take away the dry food in the middle of the night, leaving the meat in exchange for your father, and sneak away from the refugee camp alone. Using the wind and snow to cover your body, you go up the mountain to collect herbs and take the opportunity to find a chance to stay in the mountain and survive.]
[Unfortunately, you encountered a pack of wolves. You dragged your weak child up a tree and caught a cold. You started to have a fever and became confused. Unexpectedly, the wolves were lingering under the tree. The tree you climbed up was the home of a bird demon. The bird demon wanted to kill you, the intruder. You decided:
A. Fighting the bird monster
B. Jump down from a tree and fight the wolves
C. Invite the bird demon to sit and discuss the Dao
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
What the hell are these options? An eight-year-old kid with a fever and insane, option A is to fight a bird demon, option B is to fight a pack of wolves.
It's just food delivery!
Option C, inviting the bird demon to sit and discuss the Dao, is even more absurd. This bird demon may not even have the ability to communicate and think, not to mention that Wu Ci is currently impersonating an eight-year-old child who is confused even with a fever. It is estimated that he can't even speak clearly. Even if his innate talent of "preaching" is useful, due to the limited conditions, he can't discuss the Dao to any purpose.
Then only options D and E are available, but the simulation has only just begun and the simulated identity hasn't grown up yet, let alone leaving behind heroic legends, additional souls, and personal advents. What should we do after we use them up?
Let's add one more to try...
[You chose D.Additional Soul]
[Soul strength in this round: 2/10]
[You know that your body is weak and the bird demon is stupid, so you add 1/10 of your soul. In an instant, you feel your eyes clear and the fever subsides. At the same time, the Tao overflows and enlightens the bird demon.]
[The bird demon gained wisdom, transformed into a human form, and spoke human language. It wanted to take you, who had a special ability, as its own and devour your flesh and blood to feed itself. You invited the bird demon to sit and discuss Taoism, making up stories and quoting scriptures. The bird demon was so happy that he surrendered and worshipped you as his confidant and treated you as his guest of honor.]
[You are suspicious, treacherous and deceitful by nature. You believe that "those who are not my kind must have different hearts". Because of your life of escape and long-term illness, you are good at identifying various medicines and poisons. You deceived the bird demon to escort you to find herbs in the name of finding medicine for your father, and mixed the medicine into poison to corrode the bird demon.]
What does that mean? Why is the simulator cursing? How can he be suspicious, sinister, and cunning by nature? That's called being cautious! And the person he poisoned wasn't a human, so what if he killed a bird? There are so many birds that have died...
Isn't it normal to turn over a bird's nest when surviving in the wild? Can't we just pretend that the bird demon fell from the tree and died?
Wu Ci felt spiritually disrespected, and physically really hungry.
He searched the bedroom but didn't find anything edible. However, the meat soup cooked by the black cat outside the door gave off a strange and rich aroma, as if it was tempting him to go out and have a bowl of it.
So disgusting... Just thinking that the raw material of the meat soup came from a "same species" as him made him feel physically nauseous. It felt like he was being assimilated by it every time he smelled it for a second.
Unless it is necessary, Wu Ci really doesn't want to eat that stuff... and he doesn't want to go out and fight a psychopathic cannibal like Black Cat.
It’s better to be hungry. You won’t die of hunger even if you don’t eat for a few days.
[The next day, the snowstorm in the mountains was about to stop. You encountered a demon tiger in the forest. You tricked the bird demon into fighting with the demon tiger, and the bird demon was eaten by the demon tiger. The demon tiger was poisoned and died. You took advantage of the situation and mixed the flesh and blood of the two demons with the antidote for the poison and used it as food.]
[You know your purpose very well. You want to achieve great things and become a powerful hero. You cannot live in the mountains for long. After hiding most of the food, you return to the mountain. However, you find that the refugee camp has been relocated and your father has already died. You decide:
A. Migrate with the team
B. Return to the mountains
C. Act Alone
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
If he migrates with the team, he will easily be eaten by the refugees. Returning to the mountains is not in line with the goal of leaving behind a legend and shaping a heroic spirit... Although it is a bit dangerous to act alone, if he takes the flesh and blood of the two monsters as food and has freedom of movement, based on Wu Ci's inherent wilderness survival skills, there may be a different result.
【You chose C. Act Alone】
[You return to the mountains, use wood to build a trailer to take the two monsters away, cover it with snow, and move alone. You decide to go to the imperial city to look for opportunities. On the way, you meet an old monk in a red robe. He says that you have a connection with Buddha and shows you the magical Dharma. He can make flowers appear out of thin air and make rain with a finger. It is amazing. The old monk asks you if you are willing to join the temple as a monk. You decide:
A. Gladly agree
B. Reject on the spot
C. Hypocrisy and deception
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
The opportunity to gain special abilities has arrived.
However, the old monk had special abilities and should have been able to tell that he was dragging the corpses of monsters. Wu Ci suspected that the old monk was not really kind, but was testing him to see how a child like him could have obtained the corpses of two monsters.
【You chose C. False pretense】
[You are suspicious by nature and don't want to trust anyone who is not under your control. You are also afraid that the old monk will tear your face and you will be unable to fight back, so you pretend to be suspicious and curious to ask the old monk the name of the temple.
The old monk knows that you are worried, and secretly sighs that your alertness is definitely not something that can be easily found. I answer that the name of the temple is "Tian De Temple", which is absolutely different from some unorthodox sects. It is still the state religion of the Qian Dynasty, a famous and upright sect, and the current national teacher also comes from this sect.
The old monk is the abbot of Tiande Temple in Wangdu. If you are willing, he can accept you as his disciple.
[You are still afraid that there is something fishy going on, so you are secretly alert and follow the old monk to Tiande Temple in the imperial capital. The old monk invites you to have a candlelight chat at night, asking you if you really want to become his disciple.]
[You refused to be inferior to others, and found that because your soul was injected into the body of the simulated identity, it looked more and more like you as the simulation time passed.
You are afraid that after your hair is shaved, you will definitely reveal the face you hate so much, and it will become the source of your misfortune like in your previous life, attracting everyone's attention. So you talk with the old monk by candlelight until dawn. The old monk sighs that you have wisdom and regards you as the holy son of Buddhism. He invites you to live in the Sutra Library and practice with your hair uncut. However, you know that time is limited. You choose:
A. Study Buddhist scriptures
B. Practicing spiritual skills
C. Practice external skills
D. Learn the magic in the temple
D.Additional Souls
E. Personal Coming
Buddhist scriptures sound useless and can probably only be used to hold ceremonies and brainwash people. His own preaching skills are already good enough, so there is no need for them.
The magic spells in the temple should be small spells that facilitate life or some unconventional means and techniques. Most of them are illusions, which are the kind that the old monk showed him before. They rely on the spiritual energy in the spiritual energy method to show their power in front of people. Even if they have strong offensive power, they are not strong by themselves, but rely on external forces, and it takes time to activate them.
The duration of horizontal training of external skills is short, but the stamina is insufficient. The spiritual energy and mental method are weak in the early stage, but the potential is stronger.
The identity simulated by Wu Ci is now the Holy Son of Buddhism, which should be relatively safe. It is time to learn the inner strength and mental skills. After learning, he can also carry the training methods to the next round.
However, there is a problem with limited time... Before the simulation started, it seemed that adding souls would bring benefits. Previously, adding souls to the bird monster did bring benefits, and it even made the bird monster enlightened and transformed by absorbing some of the overflowing Tao energy.
Why not add souls first and then learn inner strength?
This should be possible. After all, the simulator is simulating according to his behavior. After he adds the soul, he should automatically choose internal skills.
[You chose D.Additional Soul]
[Soul strength in this round: 3/10]
[You know that time is running out and that strength is the root of everything, so you add souls, strengthen your talents and understanding, and quickly practice inner strength.]
[During your practice, you still don’t let down your guard. However, because you progress too fast, you find that your inner strength has hidden flaws that seem to require a lot of vitality to fill. You conceal your progress and are reluctant to make it public. You temporarily suppress it by consulting the classics.]
[Because of your suppression, your skills have backfired. Although your skills have improved, your body has become weaker and your life span has been reduced. You don’t have much time left.]
[You endure the pain, but don’t take it seriously. You continue to practice while looking for a solution.]
[One day, you were practicing in the Sutra Pavilion, and suddenly you heard a loud earthquake in the sky]
Wu Ci frowned and probed his consciousness into the long river of time to locate it based on the evidence.
From a God's perspective, a simulated identity that looks 70% like him and is wearing a red robe stands at the top window of the nine-story pagoda of the Sutra Repository, looking out at the sky from the railing.
Wu Ci followed the line of sight of the simulated identity and saw the sky:
Above the sky, a young Taoist priest with his eyes covered by white silk and a group of yellow-turbaned warriors bowed in the direction of the imperial palace.
The Taoist's sad and angry voice came from the clouds:
[The blue sky has died, the yellow sky shall be established! In the year of Jiazi, the world will be blessed!] (Note 1)
In an instant, lightning flashed and the weather changed!
[Thunder God, help me!] (Note 2)
The young Taoist's temples turned gray quickly, while the aura of the yellow-turbaned warriors behind him rose rapidly. They stood in a line on the top of the clouds, like heavenly soldiers judging the evil!
Wu Ci touched his chin.
With such a grand ceremony, this young Taoist priest is obviously a powerful character... He would be very powerful if he were to transform into a heroic spirit and be extracted.
Just as he was thinking this, suddenly, a loud shout came from the palace, "Stop being so arrogant, you evil Taoist!"
A giant Buddha made of flowing flesh and blood and various slightly pulsating reproductive organs... rose from the ground inside the imperial palace!
This huge flesh-and-blood Buddha raised his giant palm with five fingers outstretched, and his evil face contained a look of holy sorrow.
The Taoist priest and his Yellow Turban warriors fought against the giant flesh and blood Buddha and the imperial teacher who was protecting the palace, but were finally suppressed by the Five Finger Mountain!
[The Taoist Tianji lamented the hardships of people's lives, offered sacrifices to the emperor's birthday, and surrounded the palace with his yellow-turbaned warriors, but was defeated by the imperial teacher and was suppressed by him. You finally discovered that the "Buddha" enshrined in Tiande Temple was a strange being with reproductive organs all over its body...]
[You think you are temporarily unable to compete with him, so you ignore him and continue to study in the Sutra Library as if nothing happened.]
[Nine years later, you wanted to leave the temple to write legends, but the abbot stopped you and said that Emperor Qian and the Imperial Master had heard of your reputation and asked you to organize a ceremony to invite the public to donate money to build a palace for Emperor Qian. You wanted to find out what the ceremony was about, so you pretended to agree.]
[A few days later, a Dharma Assembly was held in the entire imperial city. Emperor Qian and the dignitaries came to the temple to have fun with the people. You discovered that just like the evil being that the national teacher used to suppress the Taoist Tianji, the so-called Dharma Assembly in Tiande Temple was also a place where all the monks and believers committed adultery/improper things, absorbed vitality to practice, and transferred most of it to Emperor Qian and the dignitaries.]
[You are the holy son of Buddhism, with a beautiful appearance and great holiness, which makes people salivate. Your followers and fellow disciples are vying to give you the chance of life. You are the one who will present it to the Yin Emperor. You decide:
A. Gladly agree
B. Escape immediately
C. Save the Evil
D. Sitting and talking
E.Additional Souls
F. Personal Coming
Hiss… Is this the so-called noble and upright sect? Is this the state religion? Are these the believers? Is this the chaotic world?
These monks and the emperor are so fucking scary!
And there is even an option to sit down and discuss?
What kind of teachings are you preaching? We cannot conspire with people who share different teachings! There is no room for discussion! You must choose to save all evil!
If you don't handle this situation well, whether you become a Heroic Spirit, he will leave a black history, whether he is black or white. When the Heroic Spirit is created, he will turn around and make a contract with himself. Tomorrow, when the archive personnel check the history book: Oh my, you, Wu Ci... are highly compatible with the Heroic Spirit who has experienced the black history of Yin Pa?
You are not a simple guy, are you?
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